Display easel



Patented Nov. 3, 1925.

UNITED STATI-:Ys

ERNEST FISCHER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY EASEL.

Application filed March 26, 1925. Serial No. 18,345.

To all whom t may concern: Be it known that LERNEST FISCHER, a citizenof the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New Yorkand State 5 of New York, have invent-ed certain new and usefulImprovements in Display Easels, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in easels and particularly totypes in which a pair of photographs or the like may be simultaneouslydisplayed.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide an easel composed oftwo rigid plates connected integrally -by a flexible member, each platehaving a single opening centrally therein, and capable of being foldedtogether.

Another object is to provide a substantially nonbreakable, transparentshield at 20 eachopening through which the photograph may be viewed.

A further object is to provide a base or support by which the easel isheld at a desirable angle, this support being hollow and 25 having achamber in which the folded easel mav be wholly disposed at will.

These and other objects, snc-h as the provision of means to render thehollow base dust-proof, to raise the easel into position for readyremoval, and to provide a neat and artistic device for the purpose, areattained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafterdescribed and shown in the accompanying drawing, forming a material partof this disclosure, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of anembodiment of the invention as erected for dis play.

Figure 2 is a similar view of the same as folded for storage orcarriage.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of the same drawn to an enlargedscale.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary sectional view thereof, showing the easel inan extended position.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary face view of the easel in detail.

Referring more in detail to the drawing, the numeral 10 designates thebody of the hollow base, the same being made to resemble the appearanceof a conventional type of book, and having a leaf or lid 11 engaged atthe outer edge by a hinge 12, as a strip of textile fabric.

This lid is provided with a flexible pull 13, and may be held whenclosed by pivoted buti tons 14 in the lid near the back of a book, is alongitudinal slot 15, provided with aflap or cover 16 to close againstthe inner side, this flapibeing attached by a flexible hinge 17.

The easel is composed of two'substantially rectangular plates 18 havinga ieXible connecting strip 19 acting as a hinge, and each plate containsan opening 2O at the front, here shown as oval, adjacent to which is atransparent plate 21 as celluloid, the same being entered through aslit22 in the top of the plate, this slit also being receptive of the objectto be displayed. y

Each plate contains notches 23 in the bottom edge, their adjacent edgesbeing bevelled and the portion between the notches, including theflexible strip, is adapted to be entered in the slot 15, displacing theflap 16 and to rest upon the inner, lower front corner of the base-tostand at a slight angle Vas best in Figures 1 and 4.

The adjacent edges of the notches 23 are convergingly inclined as theyapproach the bottom of the plates, to make contact with the ends of theslot 15, thus centering the easel upon its base.

At the back of the easel is a strip-24 constituting a pocketto retainpapers or the like, the strip being attached at its end 25 only.

A tape 26 is secured within the hollow base at one end 27, see` Figures3 and 4, and at the bottom end to the lid at 28, this tape acting toraise the folded easel from the interior of the base automatically uponraising l the lid.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is Y An easel having a chambered basecontaining an elongated slot contiguous to one of its longer side edges,a lid hinged at the opposite edge, a flap hinged in said base tonormally cover the mentioned slot, a support erected on the base to befirmly held thereon, plate composed of two sections flexibly andtianepaiently Covered openings in said united and foldable to enter thechamber in plate receptive of articles to be displayed. 10 said base,said plate having a notched lower In Witness whereof l have atlixed mySigedge, the portion between the notches being nature.

disposable in the mentioned slot to rest upon the bottom wall of Saidvelnztrnber when ERNEST FISCHER.

